About Heather
Heather Howard is a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) with 20 years of experience in Ohio. She centers her work on helping people who feel stuck by listening closely and offering steady support. Heather emphasizes practical steps and respects each person's own knowledge of their life.
She commonly helps people who are coping with stress and anxiety. She also supports those dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, and major life changes.
Background and approach
Relationship concerns and communication problems are part of her practice as well. In sessions Heather focuses on building on a person’s strengths. She helps clients notice what already works and try small changes that add up.
The pace is collaborative - she talks with people about goals and what feels manageable for them. Her experience includes work with panic attacks, phobias, social anxiety, seasonal mood shifts, and issues tied to sexual assault and abuse. She also addresses abandonment wounds, codependency, forgiveness, and first responder-related stress.
Heather offers a calm, respectful approach that aims to make skills practical and usable. She supports people through clear steps, short-term strategies, and longer-term coping plans. Her practice is grounded in two decades of helping people find steadier footing during hard times.
Approaches that guide online sessions and practical benefits
Heather uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on real-world coping and symptom relief. One common approach emphasizes skill-building for anxiety and panic symptoms, teaching breathing, grounding, and step-by-step exposure to feared situations to reduce avoidance and build confidence. Another approach centers on processing trauma and difficult experiences through paced, supportive conversations that help people make sense of what happened and reclaim day-to-day functioning.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Heather works with each person to identify goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they try methods that match those goals and adjust as needed so the work stays relevant and manageable.
Online therapy offers flexibility and practical access to ongoing care. Video calls let therapists and clients work face-to-face when discussion and nonverbal cues matter. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief updates, skill coaching, and questions between sessions. These options make it easier to fit care into a busy life and to maintain steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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